Linux-Setup Digest #392, Volume #19 Sun, 13 Aug 00 18:13:13 EDT
Contents:
color for man pages (Peter Bismuti)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (blowfish)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (blowfish)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (blowfish)
Installing a new drive killed off sound ("Justin Smith")
Re: localhost, DNS, arp tables help sought (Tom Kralidis)
Re: Saving and Restoring an MBR (John Hasler)
Re: Subsystem administration (Monte Milanuk)
Re: PLEASE HELP !!!! (Derek Whitten)
Iomega Ditto Parallel Port tape drive ("djmiller")
Re: IBM ThinkPad LapTop Installation (Don Thompson)
Re: MP3 converter (Fluri Dave)
auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use ("Dave Anderson")
Re: Help with Partition Magic and BootMagic (J.M. Paden)
Re: Partition Size Advice (hac)
Re: HP 8100i CDRW not working.... (Alex Chudnovsky)
Trying to install Redhat 6.2 on a Compaq server (Kris Kelley)
Re: Please help! problem with quota ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux+Win98 Newbie Install ("Joohan Yoon")
Re: Help with Partition Magic and BootMagic (Rod Smith)
Re: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use (Hal Burgiss)
Re: How many partition i needed?? ("Philo")
Um sorry misunderstanding.... ("Joohan Yoon")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: color for man pages
Date: 13 Aug 2000 19:00:26 GMT
I don't like the color scheme for my man pages, where can I go to
reconfigure it?
Thanks.
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From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 12:12:03 -0700
John Hasler wrote:
>
> Andrew Halliwell writes:
> > Nothing wrong with Commies...
>
> Whether or not one approves of "Commies" is irrelevant to the fact that
> neither Gnu nor the GPL have anything to do with them.
>
> > Or are you still one of the brainwashed MacKarthey-ites?
>
> Is that an original misspelling of McCarthy, or did I somehow overlook a
> "movement" in the last forty years or so?
Yes, it was a misspelled name in the original post by spikey-the AI humanoid. ;-)
> --
> John Hasler
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Dancing Horse Hill
> Elmwood, Wisconsin
--
- Alex / blowfish.- Just an average, whimpy, non-geek American computer
user. (Have Fun with geek's culture:Part 2.4.test.pre.release-1234567.)
- Don't fear the Duck. Resistance is futile. Eat your duck soup.
- World Domination:60% foo.bar.com now serveing Duck a l'Orange with
free side order of duck soup.
- Official Duck a l'orange Counter Registration:
#345678.(https://foo.duck.org/orange/duck_soup/duck_counter.php)
(c)Copyrighted by Alex / blowfish. 2000. All Rights Reserved.
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From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 12:18:03 -0700
Isaac wrote:
>
> On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 13:08:47 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >Hey, I'm not a scholar of 1950's yankeeland... Why should I care how to
> >spell the name of a political plonker?
> >
> Because you want to be credible? You did introduce the topic.
>
> Isaac
spikey creditable?
spike1 (noun) : An 8 bit humanoid GUI patch to an 4 bit shell, coded on a 2 bit
Prolog compiler, by a 1 bit programmer, that can't even do 0 bit of AI thinking.
And skikey is drinking and partying too much with his *Rachel* Hehehe...! (Check
out one of spike1's sig about "Rachel." :-O
--
- Alex / blowfish.- Just an average, whimpy, non-geek American computer
user. (Have Fun with geek's culture:Part 2.4.test.pre.release-1234567.)
- Don't fear the Duck. Resistance is futile. Eat your duck soup.
- World Domination:60% foo.bar.com now serveing Duck a l'Orange with
free side order of duck soup.
- Official Duck a l'orange Counter Registration:
#345678.(https://foo.duck.org/orange/duck_soup/duck_counter.php)
(c)Copyrighted by Alex / blowfish. 2000. All Rights Reserved.
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From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 12:22:54 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>
> >> blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> >> > But OTOH. You're too thin. ;-)
> >>
> >> Tell me about it... No matter what I eat., I just CAN'T seem to put on
> >> weight...
> >>
> > Time to visit your doctor...
>
> Why? 10 1/2 stone's only a few lbs under weight for my height.
>
But...Phew!... Unfortunately. That weight lost came from your brain. And you
didn't have much there to begin with...
> --
> ______________________________________________________________________________
> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |
> |Andrew Halliwell BSc(hons)| "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't |
> | in | suck is probably the day they start making |
> | Computer science | vacuum cleaners" - Ernst Jan Plugge |
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
- Alex / blowfish.- Just an average, whimpy, non-geek American computer
user. (Have Fun with geek's culture:Part 2.4.test.pre.release-1234567.)
- Don't fear the Duck. Resistance is futile. Eat your duck soup.
- World Domination:60% foo.bar.com now serveing Duck a l'Orange with
free side order of duck soup.
- Official Duck a l'orange Counter Registration:
#345678.(https://foo.duck.org/orange/duck_soup/duck_counter.php)
(c)Copyrighted by Alex / blowfish. 2000. All Rights Reserved.
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From: "Justin Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing a new drive killed off sound
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 15:26:52 -0500
I have a dual-booting Packard-Bell 7800 machine with Linux (Redhat 6.2) and Windoze 98.
After I installed a new disk drive, sound (CS4232 on the motherboard) no longer works
in
either operating system. The new drive works fine, though. I installed the new drive
as a
master to the CDROM (which I made a slave). Due to the peculiar layout of my system
(the main drive is mounted on the side of the computer, not in the rack with the
CDROM)
I couldn't install it as a slave to the main hard drive.
Linux can't configure sound any longer, and the Windoze diagnostic programs report an
error 272 on the sound chip (with no explanation anywhere of what this means!).
Any suggestions? I guess I can live without sound, but it is a little frustrating.
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From: Tom Kralidis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: localhost, DNS, arp tables help sought
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 15:30:44 -0400
I ended up figuring out the problem. My arp tables in /var/named were out
of whack. Guess that's what happens when you try configuring with BOTH
command line and gui driven tools. I'll stick to the former here on in.
All problems I mentioned are now solved. Sorry for the hassle.
Tom Kralidis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I attempted to setup a private, self-contained LAN with two computers
> (Win98 & Redhat6.2), and have acheived connectivity between both (samba,
> printers, telnet, ftp). However, I'm having some minor hiccups which
> lead to to believe my network setup may be buggy.
>
> The two problems I'm having are, from the linux box:
>
> 1) can't ping or nslookup localhost by name, but successful with
> 127.0.0.1
>
> 2) can't nslookup Win98 box by ip, but successful with hostname.
>
> (can't find 192.168.1.6: non-existent host/domain)
>
> My network is setup as follows:
>
> domainname=swoosh.ca
> linuxbox IP = 192.168.1.5 jedi.swoosh.ca jedi
> win98 IP = 192.168.1.6 sith.swoosh.ca sith
>
> nameserver=192.168.1.5
> subnet mask= 255.255.255.240
>
> I setup the linux box with the following params:
>
> /etc/sysconfig/network
> NETWORKING=yes
> HOSTNAME=jedi.swoosh.ca
> DOMAINNAME=swoosh.ca
> FORWARD_IPV4=yes
> GATEWAYDEV=eth0
> GATEWAY=192.168.1.49
>
> /etc/syscongif/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
> DEVICE=eth0
> BROADCAST=192.168.1.63
> IPADDR=192.168.1.5
> NETMASK=255.255.255.240
> NETWORK=192.168.1.48
> ONBOOT=yes
> BOOTPROTO=none
>
> /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 192.168.1.5 jedi.swoosh.ca jedi
> 192.168.1.6 sith.swoosh.ca sith
>
> Here's what I get from some programs, when checking:
> [jedi:~]{12}% /sbin/ifconfig eth0
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:24:4D:49:82
> inet addr:192.168.1.5 Bcast:192.168.1.63
> Mask:255.255.255.240
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:588 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:866 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:45
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> Interrupt:11 Base address:0x210
>
> [jedi:~]{13}% /sbin/ifconfig lo
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
> RX packets:1938 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:1938 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>
> [jedi:~]{14}% netstat -rn
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt
> Iface
> 192.168.1.48 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.240 U 0 0 0
> eth0
> 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.240 U 0 0 0
> eth0
> 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0
> lo
> 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.49 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0
> eth0
>
> [jedi:~]{16}% /sbin/arp
> Address HWtype HWaddress Flags
> Mask Iface
> sith.swoosh.ca ether 00:C0:4F:B6:20:A9
> C eth0
> 192.168.1.49
> (incomplete) eth0
>
> I believe the ARP tables should show every IP address?
>
> Currently, the network *is functional*, but I would like to have a firm
> setup before moving on to more complicated stuff.
>
> Any suggestions are much appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> ..Tom
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Saving and Restoring an MBR
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 18:46:58 GMT
Randy Cooper writes:
> That will only work if you want a generic DOS MBR. What if you want to
> recover the MBR after Linux has been installed and overwritten the MBR to
> use with LILO?
'lilo -u' of course. man lilo.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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From: Monte Milanuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Subsystem administration
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 14:27:11 -0600
Dusty wrote:
>
> Is there any way that I can assign various duties of system administration(ie.
> usernames and passwords, filesystems, network...) to specific users without
> giving them super user status? I don't want the filesystem administrator to
> have access to administrative network commands, and vice versa.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Dusty
sudo
--
The Law of Unintended Consequences:
Whether or not what you do has the effet you want, it will have three
at least you never expected, and one of those usually unpleasant.
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From: Derek Whitten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.linux.isp,alt.linux
Subject: Re: PLEASE HELP !!!!
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 13:32:42 -0700
my index.html is in the /httpd/html/ directory.
You can also goto the httpd directory and look for a file called
httpd.conf (mine's in the /etc/httpd/conf dir) and check your document
root entry in that file. You can also check out what the doc root is
listed in by using linuxconf too.
If you cannot find the httpd.conf file, you can also open up a terminal
window and type in (w/o quotes) "find / -name httpd.conf" or "find /
-name h*.conf"
Hope this helps
Derek
Bluefoot wrote:
>
> This is starting to get frustrating, and I'm starting to think that nobody
> is going to be able to answer my question at all - I have trawled through
> various help documents and F.A.Q.s online to no avail :-
>
> Okay - I've got Apache 1.0.0 running on my Slackware 96 Linux system - bit
> of an odd one this - I run httpd -f [configpath] and httpd gets up and
> running - I've told it (in srm.conf) that the document root is
> /www/vhtdocs - this directory has a completely blank document in it called
> index.html.
>
> Then I go into X and launch arena web browser and point it at
> http://ns.equaliser.net (me) and it serves up the following page:-
>
> This is /usr/libs/httpd/htdocs/index.html - - a sample HTML page. You'll
> probably want to replace this with the starting page for your web server.
>
> Problem [1] this is not where I told Apache to look
>
> Problem [2] beyond /usr/lib/, the rest of the directory path above doesn't
> even exist on my machine.
>
> To further expand - I've had to set up my machines I.P. as 127.0.0.1 as
> localhost because I do not have a network interface, and I can't seem to get
> the dummy interface that somebody told me to use to work at all.
>
> Httpd answers my telnets to port 80 just fine - so I assume it is listening
> okay. I have now tried moving my html document root to the document root
> that Apache claims to be serving up, and it hasn't made a blind bit of
> difference. I have now been through so many attempts to get this working
> that I am considering giving up on Linux altogether.
>
> I can't get DNS to work properly, but I can worry about that later - for now
> I would like to know why Apache is telling me lies. If nobody can answer my
> query this time, then I will have to assume that nobody knows what is wrong
> and consider dumping the whole project.
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From: "djmiller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Iomega Ditto Parallel Port tape drive
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 20:41:59 GMT
How do I get an Iomega Ditto parallel drive working under Linux? (This is
the Easy 3200 model, which accepts standard Travan TR-3 tapes.)
Having done that, how do I use it to perform backups (what software)?
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From: Don Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IBM ThinkPad LapTop Installation
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 20:44:04 GMT
Don wrote:
>
> I would like to install RedHat Ver 6.2 on my IBM ThinkPad but don't know
> where to start.
> Would RH ver6.2 recognize my modem, and if I used my CD rom to install, how
> would I get my floppy recognized?
> What about a mouse? My ThinkPad uses a PS/2 mouse. Should I change to a
> serial mouse?
> How would I exchange my CD for the floppy while in Linux?
> I have a 2.1 GB hard drive I would devote to Linux.
> Would I have to recompile the Kernel to get a smaller one?
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice.
Good luck with this...here's some of my experiences.
I installed SuSE 6.4 on my tpA20. SuSE has many install options, and I
use the gui YAST2, which worked great for me. Although I have a few
issues, I'm pleased with the results. I did try to install RH6.2 first,
and at boot it did not recognize the video display correctly, so I
quickly stopped. My preference was SuSE for other reasons, and was only
playing with RH.
What's not working currently is the modem--this is always a tricky one.
I have a PCMCIA modem, which works, so I haven't messed with the
internal modem.
Search for linux laptop thinkpad, and you'll find lots of info.
Good luck!
Don T.
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From: Fluri Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MP3 converter
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 16:50:30 -0400
Julian Bordas wrote:
>
> Hello
> I'm looking for something to convert wav files to MP3's I have
> not found anything on Tucows.
>
> Any ideas where to go?
>
> Ta
>
> Julian
I just got through playing aound with BlandeEnc and I
recommend it heartily. Works great -- even at 320 bps,
although, at that rate, it records at about 0.37X on my
machine...
Dave Fluri
North Bay, Ontario Canada
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From: "Dave Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uklinux.help.newbies
Subject: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:57:34 -0500
After upgrading to RH6.2, I now get the following message every ten minutes.
Aug 13 16:57:34 lake inetd[3326]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use
I commented the auth line out of inetd.conf, and that got rid of the message.
The line had been commented out of my previous inetd.conf.
Howver, I'd like to know what might be tying that address up first, so I could
look to sort that out instead.
Any ideas?
many thanks
Dave
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.M. Paden)
Subject: Re: Help with Partition Magic and BootMagic
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 20:58:36 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith) wrote:
>[Posted and mailed]
>
>In article <Oazl5.76968$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Terry Smerling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I have Partition Magic 4.0, which includes BootMagic (1.0?). My
>> question concerns what type of partition to create with Partition Magic in
>> order to install Boot Magic. My first hard drive is 12 gigs and contains
>> Win2000 and Win98; and my second hard drive (4 gigs) contains Corel Linux.
>> As I understand it, I have to create a new 8 meg primary partition at the
>> beginning of my first hard drive to accomodate BootMagic.
>
>No; BootMagic resides on the Windows boot partition, which must be FAT.
>Remove your 8MB primary partition and just install BootMagic on the main
>FAT partitions.
I have a followup question, since I am about to reinstall Slackware on
a new second drive. I have Windows on my first drive and will devote
all the second drive to Slackware. I will be using BootMagic. As I
understand it, I can have BootMagic activate LILO. My question is
where should LILO be placed?
Regards,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"The last temptation is the greatest treason:
To do the right deed for the wrong reason."
--T.S. Eliot
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From: hac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Partition Size Advice
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 21:19:00 GMT
John Beardmore wrote:
>
>
> What's the rationale for sizing swap partitions ?
>
> In Win32, the rule of thumb seems to be to have an initial swap file
> size that is say 1.5 time the size of physical ram, and perhaps to let
> it grow bigger if needs be.
>
> How sensible would it be on say a 512 meg ram Linux box to have a mere
> 64 or 128 meg swap partition ? Can a Linux box be configured without a
> swap partition at all ? My gut feeling is that it would be a bit of a
> waste of space ! By the time you needed it at all, you'd be more or
> less totally out of space !
>
You can run with no swap. But there are two problems.
If you run out of virtual memory, Linux will kill some process. If it
is a critical process, like init, you are hosed. With no swap, your
size of your virtual memory is the size of your physical memory.
Ideally, you would have enough physical memory for all of the
applications that you want to run. In practice, once in a while, some
program will grab more memory than you expected. Better to have it
page and slow down than just crash.
In normal operation, you benefit from swap even when programs are not
using much memory. Pages that are not being used can be paged out,
freeing memory for use as cache. Every system has processes that only
sit there waiting for something to happen. And even processes that
are executing have chunks of code and data that aren't in current
use. Without swap, they take up RAM. With swap, those pages move to
swap, and more RAM is available to buffer disk access. Performance
improves.
How much is too much? Depends on your needs. Paging because memory
is needed, as opposed to paging due to inactivity, will slow down your
system. You may decide that slow enough is as good as crashed.
That's the maximum amount of swap you want. You might also look at
quotas. But there are people running applications with huge data sets
that can use large amounts of swap without large amounts of paging -
because of good locality of access.
My desktop has a somewhat excessive 640MB of RAM, and 256MB of swap.
If I actually use up the swap, something's gone wrong. But disk space
is cheap, so there is little reason to make it smaller. It's the same
swap as when I had 128MB of RAM.
Note that there are some Unix systems where the size of the swap space
sets the size of the virtual memory. In those cases, swap will be
larger than RAM. That's not the case with Linux, so there's no direct
connection between RAM size and swap size. Except that the answer to
how much RAM and how much swap is the same: "Enough."
--
Howard Christeller Irvine, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Alex Chudnovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: HP 8100i CDRW not working....
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 23:23:15 +0000
bernieo wrote:
> Carlos wrote:
>
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> I think it would sure make life a lot
> > >> easier for the average Linux user if distributions just used
ide-scsi,
> > >> and left ide-cd to people that wanted to configure it themselves.
> > >
> > >It would surely make life easier for us who have IDE CD burners, but it
> > >might be a bit of a pain for those with SCSI drives. I've no experience
> > >using a computer with IDE and SCSI drives, and I don't know how well
> > >a "real" SCSI driver would coexist with SCSI emulation.
> >
> > My system has 2 scsi HD's, and ide CDROM and CDRW using the ide-scsi
> > trick. Works flawlessly but was a pain to configure the first time
> > (probably would take less than 5' now...). No problem with mixed ide
and
> > scsi systems.
> >
> > Carlos
>
> I have and IDE CDRW and a SCSI Scanner.
> I tried to enable the CDRW under linux as a Writer, but when I did, I lost
> access
> to the TRUE SCSI Scanner.
>
> How can I setup the IDE CDRW drive to go through the IDE-SCSI Emulation,
> yet still have access to my SCSI Scanner.
>
Pretty easy - it's the matter of several lines like the following in
/etc/conf.modules -
alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
alias scsi_hostadapter1 <true_scsi>
and some in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
modprobe scsi_hostadapter
modprobe scsi_hostadapter1
Then you access your SCANNER as /dev/sgb and not /dev/sga - for /dev/sga
would be already occupied by your WRITER.
>
>
Hope I've been helpful.
--
Regards,
Alex Chudnovsky
e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ : 35559910
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Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 16:26:01 -0500
Subject: Trying to install Redhat 6.2 on a Compaq server
From: Kris Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello all.
I am trying to install Redhat 6.2 on a dual-Pentium Compaq server box. The
problem is, the boot drive needs to have the Compaq set-up/diagnostic
partition. Using the graphical installation tool that Redhat provides,
selecting the automatic partitioning scheme would wipe out the Compaq
partition, assuming I'm reading the warnings correctly. On the other hand,
when I opt to do partitioning manually, Redhat insists that I give the
Compaq partition a mount point. Obviously, I don't want to give it a mount
point since the stuff in that partition would be useless to linux.
So, is there a way to install Redhat on this machine while keeping the
Compaq partition intact? A friend suggested I use a console-based
installation procedure instead of the graphical one, but unfortunately I am
extremely new to linux (my Unix experience up to this point has been almost
strictly Solaris), so I am very uncertain about what course of action to
take. Any assistance, or even clues about where I can look to find the
answer, will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
---Kris Kelley
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.redhat,at.linux,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Please help! problem with quota
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 21:22:31 GMT
This could be another case of linuxconf chewing up config files.
Try editing quota.user and quota.group manually.
On Sat, 12 Aug 2000 16:19:53 GMT, "H.A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I had to redo my Redhat 6.2 server and have a problem. I used to have quota
>on for some of the users on one of the partitions. After I've redone the
>server, I went back and used Linuxconf and 1) turned quota user and quota
>group on for that partition, 2) I set the quota default to 5000. The
>problem is once I activate that, almost none of the users on that partition
>can add more files and most of them can't read e-mail getting a weird error
>and saying that quota exceeded even though it didn't. I had to give them
>all unlimited quota for the time being, but I need to know how I can fix
>that?
>
>Any idea?
>Any help will be appreciated.
>
>
>
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From: "Joohan Yoon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux+Win98 Newbie Install
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:25:58 -0400
Hmmm....
I think you shoud run to use fdisk first.
But backup important data first...
1. boot to clean dos prompt
2. run "fdisk"
3. make primary partition 12 gb.
4. leave 8gb untouched
5. reboot and install Windows 98
6. Install Linux
7. when asked where to put "lilo" choose "MBR"
Hope it helps. If not ask me more. send me an e-mail.
Good luck.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Help with Partition Magic and BootMagic
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 21:29:11 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.M. Paden) writes:
>
> I have a followup question, since I am about to reinstall Slackware on
> a new second drive. I have Windows on my first drive and will devote
> all the second drive to Slackware. I will be using BootMagic. As I
> understand it, I can have BootMagic activate LILO. My question is
> where should LILO be placed?
On the Linux boot partition's boot sector (aka superblock). DO NOT put
it on the boot disk's master boot record (MBR).
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Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: uklinux.help.newbies
Subject: Re: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 21:30:38 GMT
On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:57:34 -0500, Dave Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>After upgrading to RH6.2, I now get the following message every ten minutes.
>
>Aug 13 16:57:34 lake inetd[3326]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use
>
>I commented the auth line out of inetd.conf, and that got rid of the message.
>The line had been commented out of my previous inetd.conf.
>
>Howver, I'd like to know what might be tying that address up first, so I could
>look to sort that out instead.
identd is started via init scripts as of 6.2. So identd is conflicting
with identd. Just starting in two different places. This was in the
release notes IIRC.
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Hal B
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From: "Philo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How many partition i needed??
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 16:32:05 -0000
the first thing to do after you partition is install windows in C:
once that has been done, go to your linux install...
the first thing you will have to do is *delete* one of the partitions (other
than c:) in order to create the free space for your linux install...
then you can *add* you linux partitions...
you will need a minimum of three partitions
/boot this is a mounted partition and 10-15 megs will suffice
/ this a a mounted partition and you may install all the rest here
you could allocate a small number and specify, grow to fill
partition.
...you will more than likely need at least 600 megs to do a decent
install
finally you will need a swap space. this partition is not mounted and you
should allow 50 -100 megs or more
then, when you install, i find that lilo (or grub) is a simple but effective
way to dual boot between windows and linux.
it will default to linux...but you may opt for windows...
plus once you get your linux installed you may specify windows as a
default...from your linuxconfig
Philo
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From: "Joohan Yoon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Um sorry misunderstanding....
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:36:21 -0400
Sorry. I misunderstood your question....Damn overnight crunch session....
Can't read right..
ummm..... I am not sure how to solve that 1024 thing....
Maybe you better use one of those multiboot programs...
Incidentally if you install "BeOS" you get a nice and simple
boot maneger called "bootman"
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